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Ralph Chikhany, graduate student, mathematics and statistics, received the 2020 CAS Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Award.
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Mathematics & Statistics
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Bala Krishnamoorthy, professor, and William Hall, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, WSU Vancouver and Pullman, respectively, were named new members of the WSU Provost’s Teaching Academy in recognition of their innovation, scholarship, and sustained excellence in teaching.
Mathematics and Statistics
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RocÍo Sotomayor, senior instructor, mathematics and statistics, WSU Vancouver, has been named to receive the WSU Vancouver Chancellor’s Award For Advancing Equity.
Mathematics & Statistics
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Jacob Pennington, graduate student, mathematics and statistics, WSU Vancouver, earned honorable mention recognition in the 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
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Alex Dimitrov, associate professor, mathematics & statistics, coached a team of undergraduates to earn an Outstanding Award in the SCUDEM Lite 2020 (SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations). The WSU team’s model was titled “Talking Beds: The Limit of Hospital Bed Availability Due to COVID-19 Spread in Washington.”
Mathematics and Statistics
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Leslie New, professor, mathematics & statistics, WSU Vancouver, co-authored “New close encounters of the dolphin kind: Contrasting tourist support for feeding based interactions with concern for dolphin welfare” forthcoming in Tourism Management.
Sociology and Mathematics and Statistics
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Namrata Ray, doctoral student, sociology, and Jugal Marfatia, graduate student, mathematics and statistics, were selected as finalists in the National Football League’s Big Data Bowl 2020 based on the innovation, accuracy, relevance, and clarity of their submission, which they presented at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
Anthropology and Mathematics and Statistics
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Courtney Meehan, associate professor, Edward Hagen, professor, and Katherine Flores, doctoral candidate, anthropology, and Abhishek Kaul, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, coauthored with colleagues “Household composition and the infant fecal microbiome: The INSPIRE study” in American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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Leslie New, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, WSU Vancouver, coauthored “Close encounters of the dolphin kind: Contrasting tourist support for feeding based interactions with concern for dolphin welfare” in ScienceDirect.
Biological Sciences
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Cheryl Schultz, professor, biology, WSU Vancouver, coauthored “Demographic costs and benefits of herbicide-based restoration to enhance habitat for an endangered butterfly and a threatened plant” forthcoming in Restoration Ecology. She also coauthored with Leland D. Bennion, graduate student, biology, and Leslie New, assistant professor, mathematics and statistics, both of WSU Vancouver, and another colleague “Community-level effects of herbicide-based restoration treatments: Structural benefits but at what cost?”